Placer County recycles with the One Big Bin recycling program. Your garbage and recyclables go into the same can and are taken to the Western Placer Waste Management Authority’s (WPWMA) Materials Recovery Facility (MRF), or to the Eastern Regional Landfill MRF, where the recyclables are separated from the garbage. This reduces the quantity of garbage that is put into the landfill.

What is mandatory commercial recycling and what services are available?

Mandatory commercial recycling is a California state law by which Placer County must provide recycling services to some businesses, and multi-family housing of five or more units. Placer County provides these services through private contractors in order to provide the recycling services required by state law.

What happens to the garbage that isn’t recycled?

After the garbage has been sorted at the MRF, materials that cannot be recycled are taken to a landfill. In the western portion of the County garbage is disposed of at the Western Regional Sanitary Landfill in Roseville, the only active landfill in Placer County. In the eastern portion of the County, garbage is taken to Lockwood landfill in the state of Nevada.